Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur
(1.33)
Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur flavored tobacco is a high quality, mild mixture, which combines a delicious blend of light aromatic Virginia and rich, cool smoking burley tobaccos, to create an exquisite taste and aroma, enhanced with the sweetness of a fine cherry liqueur.
Details
Brand | Borkum Riff |
Blended By | Swedish Match |
Manufactured By | |
Blend Type | Aromatic |
Contents | Burley, Virginia |
Flavoring | Alcohol / Liquor, Cherry |
Cut | Ribbon |
Packaging | 50 grams pouch |
Country | Sweden |
Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Mild
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Very Strong
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
1.33 / 4
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Reviews
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Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Oct 16, 2010 | Mild to Medium | Very Mild | Mild | Pleasant to Tolerable |
I bought this from a local smoke shop; I was looking for the Cherry Cavendish. This one is very mild, the cherry liquer is there but is almost non-existant. Instead of sweet cherry you get a sour cherry-like flavor to it. The burley and virginia compliment each other in there own right but this is only one tiny step better than the whiskey blend they have.
If you can't find the cherry cavendish, keep looking. The smoke shop owner told me this would satisfy me until they recieve the cherry cavendish. LOL DOn't believe the hipe, keep looking or go for Captain Black Cherry if you just need a cherry flavor to carry you through.
Some people might like this blend, but it certainly is not for me. I bought the pouch 6-months ago and the pouch is still full!
If you can't find the cherry cavendish, keep looking. The smoke shop owner told me this would satisfy me until they recieve the cherry cavendish. LOL DOn't believe the hipe, keep looking or go for Captain Black Cherry if you just need a cherry flavor to carry you through.
Some people might like this blend, but it certainly is not for me. I bought the pouch 6-months ago and the pouch is still full!
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 03, 2010 | Mild | Mild | Mild | Tolerable |
I bought a pouch of this stuff a little while ago. I told the lady at the tobacco shop I wanted to try something different so she pointed this out to me and said a lot of her regulars buy it. The tobacco itself smells really nice. I've been told there is nothing really special about the room note by those who are around me when I smoke it...don't really get any compliments on the smell. It burns the mouth when you smoke it. I don't know if it's because it burns so hot or what, but to me it's starting to taste more and more like smoking burnt plastic. Has a really nasty chemical-like aftertaste to it. Won't be buying it again.
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| May 04, 2010 | Mild | Medium to Strong | Medium | Pleasant |
This "thing" cannot be identified as tobacco.
It bites terribly.
It deserves to be punished.
It bites terribly.
It deserves to be punished.
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 15, 2009 | Mild to Medium | Very Strong | Medium to Full | Tolerable |
Blecchh!!! I wish - oh, how I wish - it were possible to give a negative quantity of stars! Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur is a crime against humanity; it really is.
Having been invited to try it, I did so out of curiosity, knowing I probably wouldn't like it (because of the flavouring). Why review it then? you ask. Fair question, I suppose; but I wanted to try to be objective, and to broaden my education. What a mistake! God, this is horrible! Until last Friday, Craven Aromatic and Craven Ready Rubbed were jointly at the top of my list of tobaccos to be avoided. They've just been demoted to joint second by this filthy stuff. I wouldn't wish it on Dr Goebbels.
Isn't it amazing, how the tastes of human beings can differ! So many excellent tobaccos have disappeared over the years, yet wretched offerings like this continue to be produced – and, presumably, find a ready market. There must be people out there who buy this evil substance and smoke it for pleasure!
I know – I don't understand it, but I know – that some people like their tobacco to taste of cherries. Cherries don't taste like this, though. The flavouring reminds me of the very cheap soft drinks that one used to be able to buy as a child. "A delicious blend . . . cool smoking . . .". Don't believe it, people. I've sampled some pretty blasphemous tobaccos in my time, but seldom, if ever, anything as deplorable as this. Cherry Liqueur is hotter than Satan's chestnuts, tastes like second-hand sandals, smokes wet, and leaves a liquid in your pipe that you could probably develop film in. O Lord, it's bad! It also leaves behind a ghost that will wail at you for ever. Frightful. Absolutely abominable.
A positive point: governments wishing to discourage people from smoking could sponsor stuff like this. There's absolutely nothing else to be said for Cherry Liqueur. It's a horrible travesty; the kind of profanities that would best describe it are probably not allowed on this site. The ascetically minded might like to consider smoking it during Lent, as a penance.
Having been invited to try it, I did so out of curiosity, knowing I probably wouldn't like it (because of the flavouring). Why review it then? you ask. Fair question, I suppose; but I wanted to try to be objective, and to broaden my education. What a mistake! God, this is horrible! Until last Friday, Craven Aromatic and Craven Ready Rubbed were jointly at the top of my list of tobaccos to be avoided. They've just been demoted to joint second by this filthy stuff. I wouldn't wish it on Dr Goebbels.
Isn't it amazing, how the tastes of human beings can differ! So many excellent tobaccos have disappeared over the years, yet wretched offerings like this continue to be produced – and, presumably, find a ready market. There must be people out there who buy this evil substance and smoke it for pleasure!
I know – I don't understand it, but I know – that some people like their tobacco to taste of cherries. Cherries don't taste like this, though. The flavouring reminds me of the very cheap soft drinks that one used to be able to buy as a child. "A delicious blend . . . cool smoking . . .". Don't believe it, people. I've sampled some pretty blasphemous tobaccos in my time, but seldom, if ever, anything as deplorable as this. Cherry Liqueur is hotter than Satan's chestnuts, tastes like second-hand sandals, smokes wet, and leaves a liquid in your pipe that you could probably develop film in. O Lord, it's bad! It also leaves behind a ghost that will wail at you for ever. Frightful. Absolutely abominable.
A positive point: governments wishing to discourage people from smoking could sponsor stuff like this. There's absolutely nothing else to be said for Cherry Liqueur. It's a horrible travesty; the kind of profanities that would best describe it are probably not allowed on this site. The ascetically minded might like to consider smoking it during Lent, as a penance.
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Sep 20, 2008 | Mild to Medium | Strong | Medium to Full | Pleasant to Tolerable |
OK, I didn't believe anyone on this one, so I had to try it myself. Do yourself a favor - DON'T DO IT! In my admittedly non-professional opinion, the cherry topping is overwhelmingly artificial and doesn't even smell good in the room. If this had been my first tobacco I'd smoked, I would stopped right there and never had taken it up.
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jul 13, 2008 | Medium | Medium to Strong | Overwhelming | Tolerable to Strong |
Ok, if you like cherry flavoured tobacco pass on this one. It taste more like plastic then cherries. The only good thing is the room note, but not the taste. It has an ok tobacco base quality wise but the cherry casing is horrendous. It is not the best of the Borkum Riff line at all and I didn't finish the bag. Borkum Riff is known as a not so bad 'drug store' brand that I pick up now and then as a replacement to 'proper' tobaccos. It's cheap no matter what other flavour you try so it ranges in taste from 'cheap' to 'worthwhile'. Their other blends aren't bad but this on is not good at all unless you want to burn it as incense over a fire. Don't know if they use a natural casing or not but I've tasted many other cheap cherry blends that didn't go down so nastily. Sorry guys but your casing is made from recycled tyres or something.
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Sep 25, 2007 | Mild | Very Strong | Medium to Full | Pleasant to Tolerable |
Some years ago, this was in my opinion the best of the Borkum Riff offerings. I went back to it several weeks ago. After a ten year hiatus. It reminded me of that song "Good Morning Starshine" from the 60 or early 70s - "Gloopy,gloop,gloopy;gloppy glop,gloppy". I am so glad I did not waste it on my favorite pipe. Paper-thin strands of tobacco wannabe. It did light. I enjoy pipe smoking and I even enjoy the cleaning process.It was a wise decision to smoke this in a corn cob.I hate to see a good corn cob meet its end. It was either that or smoke it a beloved briar and end up calling the nearest HAZ-MAT team. This deserves one star
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 06, 2006 | Mild | Very Strong | Full | Pleasant |
This blend is for people who want to smoke a pipe without knowing they are smoking tobacco.
It reminds me of how my wife drinks coffee: 3/4 a cup of cream or milk, 1/4 cup of coffee, 4 tsp. of sugar. Need I add she doesn't like coffee...?
It reminds me of how my wife drinks coffee: 3/4 a cup of cream or milk, 1/4 cup of coffee, 4 tsp. of sugar. Need I add she doesn't like coffee...?
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jan 01, 2005 | Mild | Very Strong | Medium | Tolerable |
Last few weeks I've had a cherry craving. Now I don't. In fact I don't think I ever will again. While not horrible this blend leaves one wanting something. What is that something? A bowl of something resembling tobacco thats what. Rev 1/1/05 Happy New Years
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 20, 2004 | Mild to Medium | Strong | Full | Tolerable |
I don't think I fancy another shot of this liqueur, unless I'm in need of something to top off some kind of cyanide concoction. A goopy, stinky, cherry overdose, with what tastes like poor-quality leaf (insofar as the casing allows one to taste anything, ever again) to boot. Perfect for repenting sins, and giving to enemies as a Christmas present.